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Good evening. Welcome to North West Tonight. | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
Our top story: Eight years after her murder, | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
Shafelia Ahmed's parents appear in court. Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
deny all the allegations. All the investigations will be contested in | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
court. Also tonight: no case to answer - a | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
pensioner is told he will not be charged for killing an alleged | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
attacker because he acted in self- defence. For most people it's a tad | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
windy and a little rainy for most at the beach, but for this lot, the | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
conditions are perfect. And teaching the boys a thing or | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
two - Imogen's leading the way as the only girl in her class. I think | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
she probably controls the boys. She'll probably have them playing | :01:00. | :01:10. | |
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with Barbies and all sorts, so we know she can hold her own! | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
Also tonight, Tony's at a glitzy awards ceremony in the heart of | :01:13. | :01:23. | |
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Salford. Yes, it is glitzy. I can tell you, the dinner suits will be | :01:24. | :01:32. | |
bulging at the seams because the big boys of rugby will be here to | :01:32. | :01:42. | |
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present the Lance Todd Trophy. Join me later on the red carpet. | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
The parents of Shafelia Ahmed have appeared before magistrates at | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
Runcorn in Cheshire charged with her murder. Iftikhar and Farzana | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
Ahmed, from Warrington, were remanded in custody. There will be | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
bail hearing at Manchester Crown Court on Friday. They were charged | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
earlier today with killing their 17-year-old daughter on September | :01:57. | :02:07. | |
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11th, 2003. Andy Gill is outside their home in Warrington now. | :02:10. | :02:20. | |
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blinds are down at their home. You can see Mr Axe hmed's car. It was a | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
very brief court appearance, five minutes, if that. By contrast, it's | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
eight years since anybody last saw Shafelia alive. | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
When Shafelia Ahmed went missing eight years ago, it was a teacher | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
who reported her absence. In the months before that happened, she | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
had been on a family trip to Pakistan, during which time she | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
drank bleach. Cheshire Police searched wasteland near her home, | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
be there was no sign of her until early 2004 when a body was found on | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
the banks of the river Kent in Cumbria. A coroner ruled she had | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
been unlawfully killed, probably by strangling or smothering. In a BBC | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
interview at the time, her father denied any responsibility. | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
REPORTER: Did you have any involvement in your daughter's | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
death? None whatsoever. In fact, her paints have always denied any | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
wrongdoing, once interrupting a press conference to assert their | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
innocence. Last year, her parents were arrested on suspicion of | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
murder in connection with the alleged honour killing of their | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
daughter. Today they were brought to the Magistrates Court at Runcorn | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
to face the single charge they murdered their daughter on | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
September 11 2003. They made a five-minute appearance in court, | :03:35. | :03:43. | |
speaking only to give their names, dates of birth and address. Mrs | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
Ahmed spoke through an interpreter. Magistrates remanded the couple | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
until Friday morning when they'll appear by a video link. Their | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
solicitor continued to assert their innocence. They have been charged | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
with allegations of murder concerning the death of their | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
daughter Shafelia Ahmed. Both vehemently deny the allegations. | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
This was the reaction of their neighbours in Warrington? It's a | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
bit of a surprise today. I don't know why they just decided now to | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
arrest them again. This afternoon, the couple were taken away by a | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
prison van until their next court appearance. | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
The couple made no entry of a plea today. It's too early in the legal | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
process for that to happen, nor was there any application for bail, but | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
the family's solicitor, who you saw in that report just now, he has | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
said the couple will apply for bail. The earliest opportunity they'll do | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
that is on Friday morning at Manchester Crown Court. Whether he | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
will apply for bail then remains to be seen. From Warrington, back to | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
you. Thank you very much. | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
Six weeks ago, 72-year-old Cecil Coley was locking up his family's | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
florist's shop in Old Trafford when he was confronted by a gang of | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
armed men. What happened next left Mr Coley with serious injuries and | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
one of the suspected robbers dead. Today the pensioner was told he | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
won't be charged with murder after stabbing 30-year-old Gary Mullings | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
to death. The Crown Prosecution Service says it's satisfied he was | :05:11. | :05:20. | |
acting in self-defence. Naomi Cornwell reports. | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
Today the florist's shop on Shrewsbury Street was closed. It | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
was here in late July that 72-year- old Cecil Coley was confronted by | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
four men armed with guns and a knife. The men forced their way in | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
as Mr Coley and a friend were locking up. In the scuffle that | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
followed a shot was fired from a blank firing pistol. Mr Coley also | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
suffered serious injuries to his face, his friend was knocked | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
unconscious and two of the suspected robbers were stabbed. One | :05:47. | :05:54. | |
of them, 30-year-old Gary Mullings, died from his injuries. All the | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
evidence indicates that when he took hold of a knife that was on | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
the shop counter and struck out, he was acting in a way that was | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
instinctively necessary to protect himself whilst fearing for his life. | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
Mr Coley had been arrested and questioned on suspicion of murder, | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
but today the Crown Prosecution Service announced that no charges | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
would be brought against the pensioner for Gary Mulling's death | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
or for the stabbing of another of the suspected robbers. It is cheer | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
from the evidence I have seen that Mr Coley was acting in reasonable | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
self-defence and used a degree of force that he reasonably believed | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
was necessary to stab Gary Mullings and injure another of the intruders. | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
In Old Trafford this afternoon one neighbour said the whole community | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
would be relieved. It's a relief for him, his family and the rest of | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
the community and his neighbours as well, who, at the end of the day | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
couldn't believe what happened. Three men have been charged with | :06:49. | :06:58. | |
robbery and are due in court next month. Pakistan International | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
airways say they have found nothing suspicious aboard a Manchester- | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
bound plane that was diverted earlier this afternoon after a bomb | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
threat. It has now left the Turkish airport to continue its flight. A | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
spokesman for Manchester Airport says the threat now looks like it | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
was a hoax. Publicist Max Clifford says his new | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
client, Rebecca Leighton, the nurse who was accused of causing the | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
deaths of patients at Stepping Hill Hospital, wants to get her life | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
back to normal as soon as possible. She was arrested after saline drips | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
were tampered with. She was released on Friday when the Crown | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
Prosecution Service said there was not enough evidence to convict her. | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
All she said to me was, "Look, I have been poisoned by sections of | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
the media. Hopefully, you can provide the antidote to get rid of | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
all of that poison because mud sticks," and a lot of the things | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
that have been written have been absolutely awful. She wants her | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
life to get back to normal as soon as possible. | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
Wards have been closed to visitors at two Wirral hospitals after an | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
outbreak of the vomiting bug Norovirus. Restrictions have been | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
imposed on some wards at Arrowe Park and on a rehabilitation ward | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
at Clatterbridge Hospital. Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
has not been affected. Planners in the Lake District have | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
turned down a proposal to build a mile-long zipwire at the Honister | :08:17. | :08:24. | |
Slate mine. The owners of the mine near Keswick wanted to install the | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
aerial slide, like this one in South Africa's Sun City, but they | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
were told it would be noisy, and out of place in a national park. | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
The village of Tideswell in Derbyshire is in the spotlight | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
tonight as part of the BBC Village SOS series. It follows the fortune | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
of villagers as they try and halt the decline of rural life and | :08:41. | :08:50. | |
transform the local economy. Yunus Mulla has had a look. This was a | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
betting shop. This one used to be a general store-cum-sweet shop, | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
electrical store over here, and then a shop here - all gone now. | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
What we're just left with is the village pub. | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
Tideswell in Derbyshire is like many rural villages. These are | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
tough times. Shop closures and the state of the economy have left | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
businesses struggling. It is good news. Your village has been chosen | :09:15. | :09:25. | |
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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE The Village SOS series has an | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
attempt to survive thanks to a new cookery school. The attempt is to | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
make this a foody village. food? Food is great. We're all | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
passionate about food. We all need food, and it brings all ages | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
together. A consultant has been drifted in to help Team Tideswell. | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
It's terrific to see that already the project seems to be having an | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
impact. Over the 12 months, there are highs and lows and some doubt. | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
I think we've got to bring a lot of people in - an awful lot of people | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
in. Yeah. And I don't know whether a cookery school is going to bring | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
that amount of people in. In the end, the villagers managed to | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
create their very own food brand, but it will be many months yet | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
before we know if it's all been a success. | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
And you can see more on Tideswell's Village SOS project on BBC One at | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
8.00pm tonight. If you're interested in getting more involved | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
with your community, check out the website for tips on getting started. | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
You can also find out how to tap into the new �5 million fund for | :10:36. | :10:44. | |
the brightest ideas. Right away - well, after the | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
programme. Still to come: | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
Trophy time again for Wigan via Salford. What links the Warriors | :10:49. | :10:59. | |
:10:59. | :10:59. | ||
and their rivals at the City Reds. And life's a breeze on Wirral - | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
perfect conditions for Europe's elite paracarters - what's that? | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
Find out later. Making the leap from education to | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
the working world can be a challenging time for anyone but for | :11:10. | :11:17. | |
people with Autism its even harder. Statistics show that although the | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
majority want to work - the majority aren't sucesful. In the | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
latest in our series on autism, Kate Simms has been been speaking | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
to two adults with autism, with very different experiences of | :11:26. | :11:34. | |
finding employment. Tom and Jack both have autism. Both want to be | :11:34. | :11:41. | |
independent adults. Both want to work, but only one does. I do all | :11:41. | :11:49. | |
the admin work. I am involved with this entire floor. We have member | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
services and the Chief Executive. Do you enjoy it It's busy. I enjoy | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
it. Jack said being employed was his biggest fear, but found work | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
after taking part in the council's scheme. His colleagues say it has | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
been a learning process for all the team, but well worth it. He's very | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
bubbly. It takes him quite awhile to learn something, but once he | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
does, he gets quite precise about that job, and he likes to make that | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
job his own, really. But Jack's story is not the norm. Only 15% of | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
adults with autism are in full-time employment. A third are without a | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
job or benefits. That's despite 61% saying they want to work. Tom is | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
part of that group. I would like to have a job because it feels like I | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
would have a bit of independence, and to fill my day, because it's | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
not really good when you're stuck at home watching the TV or playing | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
on your computer games, and I really want to work. Tom finds the | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
Jobcentre a frightening place - application forming, then there is | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
the interview. Like, I can't maintain eye contact, like - I | :13:02. | :13:10. | |
can't look at them directly, and I tend to slur my words. Tom is now | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
being supported in his search by a job coach who works for a charity. | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
Given the opportunity to be able to show that he's really hardworking, | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
he can follow instructions really well, and he's intelligent. He's | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
really bright, and he has got the ability to work. Tom just wants a | :13:27. | :13:37. | |
chance. I could work like a day for them and show that I am actually | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
hardworking, and I will be an asset to their company. | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
Yeah, bye. Meanwhile, back in Preston, Jack is thinking about the | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
future. I am interested in working in the IT department. I have | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
various different interests. I'm just interested in just working my | :13:54. | :14:01. | |
way up the scale. Earlier we spoke to Peter Sackett | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
from the Bren Project in Chester which helps people with learning | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
disabilities find supported work placements. And we asked him what | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
attitudes were like amongst employers to people with autism. | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
Most people are willing to give people a chance. The difficulty I | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
think is just a lack of awareness on the part of employers about the | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
needs of people with disabilities, but also about it their abilities | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
as well. It's just a lack of awareness, really. We saw from that | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
film Jack's worth to the company that described him as valued and | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
bubbly, though it took him a little time to learn things. He was | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
meticulous and precise, and he made the job his own, but in these tough | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
economic times, are companies going to be prepared to invest time in | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
people like Jack and others? think lots of organisations are | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
under pressure at the moment. A few years ago everyone had a little bit | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
of capacity and found they could give some extra time maybe to | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
supporting people, whereas maybe that's not the case now. People are | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
losing their jobs. There's extra stresses on employers, and there is | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
generally fear that if you take on someone with a learning disability, | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
they will be a burden rather than an asset really, and they'll take | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
staff time, so you'll lose productivity or sales. That's not | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
the case. What is the case? You obviously are there to support | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
these people in work. What would you say to employers what the | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
benefits are? The benefits can be many. People with autism, their | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
attention to detail can be amazing, their reliability, their time | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
keeping, their focus - all of which makes them a perfect employee. It's | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
just about giving them the opportunity and the chance to | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
experience the workplace, you know? At our project, what we do is we'll | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
help people to find a place, and we'll then support them one to one | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
with a job coach. That way they can learn the job. The employer gets to | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
learn about them. So if there is an employer watching this now who is | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
tempted, therefore, to give someone a chance, what do they do about it? | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
How should they go about it? There are organisations like ours | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
throughout the county. I don't know that everyone provides the level of | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
support we do. I don't know quite how they are in terms of access, | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
whether places are oversubscribed or whether organisations have | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
capacity, but to speak to the National Autistic Society and to | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
get in touch with charities like ours to see if there are any | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
opportunities. But they're under no obligation, are they, to do that? | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
Would you like to see that change? I think it's very difficult - no, | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
they're not under any obligation. When employers work with us, they | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
offer a placement. What we say to the beneficiary at the start of the | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
placement that we can't guarantee any long-term employment, but all I | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
would say is for employers to give people a chance to see what they | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
can do. If you are a company interested in | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
employing someone with a learning disability, the website address is | :16:57. | :17:07. | |
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www.brenproject.org.uk. Let's take a look at sport. Tony is the man of | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
the moment. It's a big night out for a very special man of the match. | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
Tony has all the glitz and glamour there, although without your tight. | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
Yeah, I haven't got a dicky on but everyone else has I am afraid. | :17:23. | :17:31. | |
Yes, the stars are arriving at the Lowri Hotel to present the Lance | :17:31. | :17:38. | |
Todd Trophy. More on the trophy and more on the | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
man in just a moment. Let's start off with a round-up of the day's | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
other news. Sale Sharks winger Mark Cueto is a doubt for England's | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
opening Rugby Union World Cup match against Argentina in Dunedin on | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
Saturday. Cueto has been struggling with a back problem since he was | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
forced off early in England's warm- up game against Ireland last month. | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
Let's turn to cricket now. A great effort from the lower order | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
has ensured a good first day for Lancashire's cricketers in their | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
crucial County Championship match at home to Hampshire in Liverpool. | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
An unbeaten 76 from skipper Glenn Chapple helped them recover from | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
125 for 5 to 337 for 7 when bad light stopped play. A victory would | :18:13. | :18:23. | |
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take Lancs' title hopes into the final round of games. It's the | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
European Championships. Paracarting means being tugged along at 50mph | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
on a kite. It wasn't for me, but we went along to investigate. | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
They're used to harnessing the power of the wind in this part of | :18:48. | :18:55. | |
the world, and this week the turbines have got company. | :18:55. | :19:02. | |
# I've got to get away # Dodging other racers at speeds of | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
up to 50mph, this is Europe's best men and women dealing with the best | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
the north-west climate can throw at them. How much are you enjoying | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
your holiday in England? Not so much. | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
LAUGHTER I love these conditions. For me, | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
the hard part is when I like it the most. When the sun is shining, it | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
is so beautiful, but in the rain, it is also nice. | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
LAUGHTER We have wet clothes, but that | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
doesn't matter. We have 74 registered pilots from all over | :19:36. | :19:44. | |
Europe, from as far away as Germany, Holland, Scotland, Ireland, England, | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
Switzerland and Spain. Homegrown talent comes in the form of Tommy. | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
You live a mile away. Does home advantage account for anything? It | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
does because there are a few little places where you can get more speed | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
on the bank. We'll just keep them to ourselves. Enfor dare-devil | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
sportsmen, there comes a time when conditions are too fierce to | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
continue. They have only managed one race before the heavens opened | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
up again. They have all packed up for lunch. If the sun continues, | :20:16. | :20:25. | |
they'll be back out on the beach for the rest of the week. | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
I don't know. He thinks he's John Noakes! | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
Back to the big night here. The Lance Todd memorial trophy has been | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
awarded to the Challenge Cup man of the match since 1946. This year's | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
winner, Wigan's Jeff Lima joins a list of legends. But the story | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
behind the trophy itself is fascinating and joining me now is | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
Salford Reds Chief Executive Dave Tarry to explain his club's links. | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
Salford are inexplicably linked with this trophy. What are those | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
Lings? The club supported the dinner since its inception, and | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
Lance Todd was a famous coach at Salford in 1928 and worked with the | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
club for 12 years bringing every honour available to the game | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
including the Challenge Cup, so it has been a very long association. | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
How hardly regarded within the game is this trophy? What do the players | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
think about it? We like to think it's probably the most prized | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
individual trophy that a player can win, you know? It - from the Man of | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
the Match at Wembley I don't think you get anything bigger than that | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
in our game. We can have a look at Jeff Lima now. He's won it in two | :21:28. | :21:35. | |
great tries for the Wigan challenge. What do you make of him? A very | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
good player, and he played very well on the day and certainly with | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
the result the way it went, I thought he was outstanding. What | :21:42. | :21:51. | |
kind of a guy is Jeff Lima for Rugby League, a character? He's a | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
larger-than-life character. In the main the lads who demand that sort | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
of position are. He's a big lad, as you'll see. He has a bit of | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
presence around him.Ing See from the banners around this exception | :22:05. | :22:14. | |
area, there are some big names that have won this trophy. All legends. | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
A lot of people have come here tonight to pay homage to those | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
people and the history behind the trophy, a mark of respect for that | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
category of player. Hope you have a good night. Thank you very much. | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
That's the Chief Executive of the Salford Reds. | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
Finally from me tonight, the opening to one of the Isle of Man's | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
biggest ever sporting events is to be broadcast live on the internet | :22:34. | :22:44. | |
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There we are. That's pretty much all from me at the hotel of the | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
stars. I once shared a bowl of peanuts with West Life in the floor | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
below me. I think the boys behind me are on something stronger - lots | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
of meat on the menu tonight. Thank you. I am sure you can try to | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
muscle your way into a meal, if you can. Better than peanuts. The wind | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
must have blown itself out and the rain must have rained itself out. | :23:17. | :23:26. | |
The rain is still around. Through the day today the showers weren't | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
as widespread through the afternoon, but it's worth noting we still do | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
have a flood warning, and one flood alert in force for rivers in | :23:34. | :23:41. | |
Cumbria. Here is the Environment Agency number because in parts, | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
showers will keep coming through the night tonight. I am afraid | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
they're going to add to the problems we have already. Through | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
the night, the showers died out in some parts of the north-west. Here | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
is our latest picture. If I move out of the way, you can see they're | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
starting to take hold. The Manchester skyline very grey and | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
wet now. That line of showers works its way through the region over the | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
next couple of hours. Over the high grounds, those will be heavy and | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
prolonged. By the time you get to midnight, you'll start to see a | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
back edge, and drier weather comess in towards the early hours of the | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
morning. It will not be dry everywhere, but some places will | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
get a few hours of dry weather. That is welcome. The rain through | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
the day, it has been up to 40mph in gusts, so not quite as strong as | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
yesterday, but it has been fairly blowy. It continues to be gusty | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
through the night tonight, but it's easing down tomorrow. Overnight | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
tonight, your temperatures 10-12C. Now, tomorrow, still one or two | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
showers if you're up very, very early, but then a portion of the | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
morning will be dry, and actually, there will be some breaks in the | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
cloud cover, so from time to time, you'll see a glimpse of sunshine | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
developing here and there. A change in wind direction is important for | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
us tomorrow. It's coming from the south, so the showers won't be as | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
widespread. You can see through the afternoon, another little line is | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
working its way through. For most of the region you'll have quite a | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
few hours of dryness. It's no-where near as gusty and blustery as today. | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
The next line of rain is waiting in the wings for this time tomorrow. | :25:19. | :25:27. | |
Your daytime temperatures tomorrow Midmy I think we should just make | :25:27. | :25:36. | |
your screen smaller... So we can't see! Exactly. Next, | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
hundreds of youngsters will be experiencing their first day at | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
school this week. But not many will be going in to a class quite like | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
the one Imogen Williams is joining. She is the only new entrant in her | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
year at a tiny church school in the north Lancashire village of Melling. | :25:49. | :25:56. | |
Peter Marshall has gone along to Breakfast time at the Williams home, | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
and little Imogen is excited about starting school. The four-year-old | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
is the only youngster in her school's new reception year, so she | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
knows what she'd like... More girls! It's a brisk walk through | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
the village to Meling St Will Friday School. | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
Because it's so small, classes have various age groups in them. The | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
infant class is Imogen and three older boys, but who is in charge? | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
Actually, I think she probably controls the boys. She's had them | :26:27. | :26:36. | |
playing with Barbies and all sorts, so we know she can hold her own. | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
The whole school has just 23 pupils. With house prices high in the area, | :26:41. | :26:51. | |
young families with children are We put a lot of thought in where to | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
send her to, to send her to a school that's slightly bigger, but | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
we decide we have such a lovely school right on our doorstep that | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
it's a privilege. It's your turn now! | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
It may be small, and it may be full of boys, but Imogen appears to be | :27:12. | :27:20. | |
loving life in her little village She's not going to be upstaged, is | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
she? You know what? She'll be Prime Minister, won't she? She's in | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
charge of everyone already. Those three boys will be her advisors, I | :27:30. | :27:32. |